Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 10 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.38% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.49% 2.40% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £368 £286 £263
25th Percentile £419 £397 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +5.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £692 £679
90th Percentile £775 £762 £750
London median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 672 499 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.63% 24.83% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 330 323
10th Percentile £403 £357 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile £19.34 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% -33.52%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
% change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -14 10 £500 -17.53% 4
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) DKIM
4 1 (10.00%) DMARC
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) E-Discovery
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) VMware